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A renewed call has been made for an update on the vacant site at the former Longannet Power Station.
(Permalink) Longannet Power Station Scottish Power Talgo  Longannet Power Station: View over the site of Longannet Power Station, now demolished. The power station was to the left by the pier and the rail served coal yard to the right. The triangle of departure lines is in this view ...  Kincardine: 66169 with empty HAAs from Thornton Yard to the site of Kincardine PS where they were loaded with coal and then tripped back to Longannet PS. The view looks east from the Kincardine Bridge in 2003.  Culross [2nd]: EWS 66088 leaving Longannet power station on 31 October 2006 and heading east with coal empties returning to Hunterston via Halbeath sidings and the Forth Bridge. |
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A Fife councillor says the company is failing to engage with the community as speculation mounts over the site's future.
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A bid for Levelling Up money should be made to help get the West Fife rail link on track.
(Permalink) Alloa Dunfermline Kincardine Longannet Talgo West Fife Rail Link  Kincardine: The Angus Railway Group's 'The Five Counties Railtour' at Kincardine, with the power station obscured by fog, on 20 April 1974.
 Torryburn: DMU having just passed the site of Torryburn station on its way to Culross on 21 June 1992 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the town.  Culross [2nd]: The Scottish Power Express about to leave the temporary platform at Culross on 21 June 1992 for the return trip to Edinburgh. |
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Spain: Talgo is developing a carbon fibre reinforced polymer composite version of its characteristic 'rodal' running gear frames. The company expects this will offer a 50% reduction in weight compared to using welded steel plates, with an associated cut in energy consumption and track wear as well as simplified assembly ... [Full article requires registration. -RS]
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Spanish train builder Talgo has still to reveal its plans for the former coal-fired power station site.
(Permalink) Longannet Power Station Talgo  Longannet West Arrival: DBS 66037 skirts the Forth with empties with the doomed power station in the background.
During the final three weeks of March trains may run daily, although timetabling is not be reliable.  Longannet East Arrival: A coal train arrives at Longannet Power station. The coal stockyard can be seen over to the left.  Longannet Power Station: Coal - swallower extraordinaire. Longannet power station looking south towards the Forth in June 2005. Longannet consumes approximately 10,000 tonnes of coal per day, mainly delivered by rail from Hun ... |
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Talgo have said their £40 million investment in a train manufacturing plant at Longannet remains on track despite missing out on another HS2 order.
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Plans to create 1,000 jobs and a 40m train factory in Fife have been derailed after the firm behind the project failed to win HS2 contracts. Talgo UK managing director Jon Veitch said the Government announcement was disappointing. But he said the Longannet facility remains a significant part of the firms future plans.
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Talgo missed out on a contract to supply rolling stock for HS2 but it won't derail their plans for the old power station site at Longannet.
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The pandemic may have stacked the odds against rail travel but plans to revive local stations are still gathering steam.
(Permalink) Kincardine Leven [1st] Leven [2nd] Levenmouth Longannet Newburgh [1st] Newburgh [2nd] St Andrews Talgo  Cameron Bridge [1st]: Looking west from Station Road, over the former Cameron Bridge station and yard on 20th November 2020, with vegetation clearance well advanced.
 St Andrews [2nd]: J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junct ... |
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Five organisations are bidding for a contract to design, manufacture and maintain the trains for the first phase of HS2. The original list was Alstom, Bombardier, Hitachi, Siemens and Talgo. When Bombardier and Hitachi decided to make a joint bid, CAF was added to the list to maintain five bidders.
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Talgo has shortlisted the port of Mostyn in north Wales as one of six potential sites for its proposed UK rolling stock manufacturing plant, the company announced in Cardiff on October 9.
The other sites include St Helens, Leeds and Chesterfield in northern England, and Hunterston or Longannet in Scotland. A decision on a preferred site is expected next month, although a final go-ahead would depend on the company obtaining an initial order. Talgo has been shortlisted to bid for the supply of at least 54 classic compatible 360 km/h trainsets for Phase 1 of HS2 between London and the West Midlands, based on its Avril concept. However, it said the UK plant could also be used to manufacture rolling stock for other domestic applications as well as exports, augmenting the capacity of its two existing facilities in Spain. (Permalink) Chesterfield HS2 Hunterston Leeds Longannet Mostyn St Helens Talgo |
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